Year: 2010
Squatting on Steroids
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Manhattan’s 2010 – Sound Familar?
Hat tip to the Coronado Kid for sending this 2010 summary from The Apple, Peeled: BUYERS - Top 7 Lessons of 2010: 1. Bears will always be bears: Many bearish voices in 2009 were calling for the NY Real Estate market to fall off a cliff … at the very least for...
Home Building of the Future?
From http://www.blueskyhomes.net/ Pricing for turnkey, site-engineered, custom, high-performance Blue Sky Homes ranges from $220 to $320 per square foot. Your actual price will be based upon a number of factors, including location, size of the house, site...
Buy vs. Rent
Hat tip to SM for sending this along, from David Leonhardt at the nytimes.com: Below is an updated list of rent ratios — the price of a typical home divided by the annual cost of renting that home — for 55 metropolitan areas across the country. We last covered this...
San Diego 2011 Home Prices +3.5%
From HW: San Diego should see home prices rise 3.5% next year, but prices in Florida and Nevada, two states where the foreclosure crisis is especially acute, will drop 6% to 7%, according to a real estate market forecast. While 40% of major metros are expected to see...
Watch Out
A storm report, plus a couple of others:
SD County Detached REO Map
I checked the tax rolls by owner name to find the detached properties currently owned by lenders - there were only 1,991 of them, which is about how many detached properties sell every month. Don't be alarmed, the pushpins are the size of a city block until you zoom...
Frosty Beer
From the nytimes.com, via cnbc.com: Truckee, Calif. — When Mimi Ash arrived at her mountain chalet here for a weekend ski trip, she discovered that someone had broken into the home and changed the locks. When she finally got into the house, it was empty. All of her...
Pacific City, Oregon
Poised on a timbered ridge overlooking the Pacific Ocean, this 6,000 square foot residence is organized around a two-story great room reminiscent of a grand lodge. The interior features natural Douglas fir timber construction and a massive Columbia river basalt...
